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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Pat Summitt

I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.
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Better Evaluation Myself Try
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
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Change Essential Experiment Success Willing
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
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Equality Oragnization Powerful Responsibility Team Weapon
Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Hard Work Respect
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
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Best Responsibility Small Time Way
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching Yourself
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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Goal Penalty System Target Yourself
I’ve always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It’s important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.
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Academics Basket Ball Greatness Sports Yourself
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Morning Myself Thinking Wake Up
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
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People Result Team Work
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
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Believe Discipline Myself People
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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Quit Success Yourself
I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
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Belief Combination Faith Interest Myself Success
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Karma Loyalty Side Yourself
I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.
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Hard Time Hustle Myself Practice Struggle
Put the Team Before Yourself.
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Dedication Team Yourself

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

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